Christianity needs powerful voices in today's world, voices from strong leaders guided by God and devoted to Christ. Spiritual Leadership will encourage you to place your talents and powers at His disposal so you can become a leader used for His glory.
Ten years ago a breakthrough book launched a ministry that has helped more than one million people overcome this world and win the battle for their hearts and minds. Now Neil Anderson has revised and expanded Victory over the Darkness for a new generation of readers, outlining practical and more productive ways to Christian growth based on Christ ...
Despite all the emphasis today on spiritual formation, church leaders rarely describe what spiritual maturity looks like. This book addresses how to grow disciples with relational depth--balanced people who are genuinely intimate with God, with their inner being, and with others.
This volume examines what it really means to be a Christian. The author argues that most Christians live their lives on half-power, because they do not truly appreciate and understand what has happened to them.
Kenneth Haugk shows how congregational leaders can prevent or reduce much of the pain and suffering caused by antagonism in the church. He distinguishes between healthy conflict and destructive antagonism and shows how to cope productively with disruption.
Debunk the myths about small groups and find out the truth! Church leaders can implement a life-changing small-group ministry that gets the maximum number of people involved and solves many of the important problems facing churches of all sizes.
In Ministering Cross-Culturally, the authors demonstrate that Jesus needed to learn and understand the culture in which he lived before he could undertake his public ministry. The authors examine how this can help us better understand what it means to establish relationships of grace with those from different cultural and social backgrounds. With ...
In The Making of a Leader, Dr. Robert Clinton identifies the patterns God uses to develop a leader. By studying the lives of hundreds of historical, biblical, and contemporary leaders, Dr. Clinton has identified six stages of leadership development, and he establishes checkpoints to discover where you are in the process.
- Compassionate Counsel to All Young Men- Catechising of Families- The Vain Religion of the Formal Hypocrite- One Thing Necessary- eleven other treatises and various sermons
The bestselling author of "The One-Minute Manager" reveals the meaning of servant leadership modeled after Christ. Readers seeking to grow as leaders and business executives will find "Servant Leader" nothing short of life changing.
This insightful book speaks to every church leader who yearns for a simpler, more effective approach to ministry. Apply these practices and watch your ministry transform into a winning team!
Eugene Peterson issues a provocative call for pastors to abandon their preoccupation with image and standing, administration, success, and economic viability, and to return to the three basic acts critical to the pastoral ministry: praying, reading Scripture, and giving spiritual direction.
Christ's command to the church is clear: "Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations..." It is in building disciples--helping others to embrace Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, mature in him, and then lead others to do the same--that the Kingdom grows. And when the Kingdom grows, churches do, too. In "Growing True Disciples, " respected ...
Jam-packed with practical aids and insights, this book will teach you how you can minister to people in your own church on Sunday morning! In this book you will learn: Three miracle-working questions that release the power of God. Seven signs of a miracle waiting to happen. Three skills of love that empower you to impact people with Jesus. Five ...
"Spiritual abuse" describes situations where seemingly spiritual means are used by authority figures in an attempt to meet their own needs for importance, power, intimacy, or spiritual gratification. Church members feel manipulated, used and shamed. Now two pastors of a thriving suburban church offer effective means for dealing with spiritual ...
Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge is a faith-based companion to the best-selling leadership book of all time The Leadership Challenge. Grounded in Jim and Barry's time-tested research, Christian Reflections on The Leadership Challenge describes their Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, ...
This much-needed book fully integrates principles of pastoral care, leadership, and theology to restore to ministers a clearly defined pastoral identity. Moving from a critique of inadequate models for ministry --from community organizer to T. V. evangelist -- Oden develops a more classical model, r
The founding and senior pastor of Willow Creek Community Church shares the passionate cry of his heart: the local church is the hope of the world and its future rests in the hands of its leaders.
First published in 1999, "Advanced Strategic Planning" explained why planning was so important to carrying out the church's mission. Now in its second edition, this practical resource offers: a nine-step strategic thinking and acting model; useful ideas for developing a strategy; diagrams to help illustrate concepts; and, a new chapter on ...
All of us, church leaders and laypeople alike, have been called by Christ to reach out to the world with the gospel. In this book, Bill Hull explains why disciple making must be the focus of every believer's life and tells how each of us can do it.
Discover who you are in Christ! Learn to apply the truths of Scripture as a base from which to renew your mind and become the person Christ empowers you to be.
John Wimber's first book, "Power Evangelism" describes the releasing of God's power today through signs and wonders to refresh, renew, heal and equip his people. Drawing from the teaching of the New Testament, with illustrations from his own experience, Wimber persuades us 'to yield control of our lives to the Holy Spirit, learning to hear and do ...
Anderson takes readers into the heart of leadership with practical strategies for putting leadership into life. Powerful biblical concepts on leadership are brought to life through dynamic stories of real life leaders.
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